[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 58 (Monday, March 26, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 16493]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-7384]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural Item in the Possession 
of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 
Cambridge, MA

AGENCY: National Park Service.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is hereby given under the Native American Graves Protection 
and Repatriation Act, 43 CFR 10.10 (a)(3), of the intent to repatriate 
a cultural item in the possession of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology 
and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, that meets the 
definition of ``unassociated funerary object'' under Section 2 of the 
Act.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR 10.2 (c). The 
determinations within this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of this 
cultural item. The National Park Service is not responsible for the 
determinations within this notice.
    The one cultural item is a stone bear effigy.
    In 1902, this cultural item was washed out from a grave on the 
Klamath Reservation and collected by an unknown Klamath Indian, who 
gave the cultural item to Mr. L. Warren. In 1903, Mr. Warren gifted 
this cultural item to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
    According to museum records, this cultural item was recovered from 
a grave on the Klamath Reservation, Oregon. Based on the location of 
the burial and the cultural information provided in museum 
documentation, this burial was most likely a Klamath burial from the 
historic period. Historic sources, oral traditions, and consultation 
information support this cultural item's being from the burial of a 
Klamath individual from traditional Klamath territory in Oregon.
    Based on the above-mentioned information, officials of the Peabody 
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have determined that, pursuant to 
43 CFR 10.2 (d)(2)(ii), this cultural item is reasonably believed to 
have been placed with or near individual human remains at the time of 
death or later as part of the death rite or ceremony and is believed, 
by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from a 
specific burial site of an Native American individual. Officials of the 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology also have determined that, 
pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there is a relationship of shared group 
identity that can be reasonably traced between this unassociated 
funerary object and the Klamath Indian Tribe of Oregon.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Klamath Indian Tribe 
of Oregon. Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes 
itself to be culturally affiliated with this unassociated funerary 
object should contact Barbara Isaac, Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody 
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 
02138, telephone (617) 495-2254, before April 25, 2001. Repatriation of 
this unassociated funerary object to the Klamath Indian Tribe of Oregon 
may begin after that date if no additional claimants come forward.

    Dated: March 12, 2001.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships.
[FR Doc. 01-7384 Filed 3-23-01; 8:45 am]
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